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Posted on: Oct 20, 2026

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Denver, Colorado
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Kafka Admin

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Job Location :

Denver Colorado United States

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Section	Details
Job Title	Kafka Administrator
Job Type	Contract
Client Location	Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO
Work Arrangement	Onsite (Face-to-Face Interview Required)
Duration	Long-Term Contract
Client	Telecom Domain
MUST HAVE Skills	Kafka Administration (Production Environment) Confluent Kafka Connect & Schema Registry Linux Administration Automation & Scripting Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Datadog, JMX) Disaster Recovery & Incident Management
Job Summary	Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator to manage and enhance enterprise event-streaming platforms with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. The role involves Kafka cluster administration, platform reliability, hardware refresh initiatives, automation, performance optimization, monitoring, and operational documentation.
Key Responsibilities	Design, deploy, and support highly available Kafka clusters. Manage topics, partitions, retention policies, and consumer groups. Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, and cluster maintenance. Administer Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Replicator, and REST Proxy. Optimize Kafka performance, scalability, and reliability. Execute cluster hardware refresh and migration activities. Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery processes. Create operational runbooks, standards, and technical documentation. Support incident response and platform troubleshooting. Conduct knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.
Required Qualifications	Experience administering Kafka in production environments. Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, partitions, replication, and retention. Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. Experience with MirrorMaker or Confluent Replicator. Strong Linux, networking, and performance troubleshooting skills. Experience with automation and scripting. Hands-on monitoring and observability experience using Datadog, Grafana, or JMX tools. Knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, and incident management. Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.
Preferred Qualifications	Experience with Apache Kafka environments. Experience with AWS MSK. Experience with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB. Experience leading large-scale cluster migrations or hardware refresh projects. Experience supporting multi-region Kafka deployments.

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Position Details

Posted:

Oct 20, 2026

Reference Number:

85735-7542

Employment:

CTC

City:

Denver

Job Origin:

CIEPAL_ORGANIC_FEED

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I came across your profile and thought you'd be a great fit for a Kafka Administrator contract role.

Interested? Please share your updated resume, current location, work authorization status, and preferred engagement (W2/C2C).

Section	Details
Job Title	Kafka Administrator
Job Type	Contract
Client Location	Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO
Work Arrangement	Onsite (Face-to-Face Interview Required)
Duration	Long-Term Contract
Client	Telecom Domain
MUST HAVE Skills	Kafka Administration (Production Environment) Confluent Kafka Connect & Schema Registry Linux Administration Automation & Scripting Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Datadog, JMX) Disaster Recovery & Incident Management
Job Summary	Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator to manage and enhance enterprise event-streaming platforms with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. The role involves Kafka cluster administration, platform reliability, hardware refresh initiatives, automation, performance optimization, monitoring, and operational documentation.
Key Responsibilities	Design, deploy, and support highly available Kafka clusters. Manage topics, partitions, retention policies, and consumer groups. Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, and cluster maintenance. Administer Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Replicator, and REST Proxy. Optimize Kafka performance, scalability, and reliability. Execute cluster hardware refresh and migration activities. Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery processes. Create operational runbooks, standards, and technical documentation. Support incident response and platform troubleshooting. Conduct knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.
Required Qualifications	Experience administering Kafka in production environments. Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, partitions, replication, and retention. Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. Experience with MirrorMaker or Confluent Replicator. Strong Linux, networking, and performance troubleshooting skills. Experience with automation and scripting. Hands-on monitoring and observability experience using Datadog, Grafana, or JMX tools. Knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, and incident management. Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.
Preferred Qualifications	Experience with Apache Kafka environments. Experience with AWS MSK. Experience with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB. Experience leading large-scale cluster migrations or hardware refresh projects. Experience supporting multi-region Kafka deployments.

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